When you're busy obsessing over certain aspects of your wedding hair and makeup, it can be easy to forget one of the more obvious steps. Example: I somehow forgot to thread or even pluck my eyebrows, and my wedding-day makeup artist had to do it for me the morning of! Bad, bad beauty writer. Another example: You might not think about applying makeup below your face.

Taking a minute to lightly dust your neck and decolletage with a luminous powder will make this area—which many wedding dresses frame and turn into even more of a focal point—look smooth and flawless and will also highlight the contours of your clavicles and cleavage. Makeup artist Talia Shobrook just used this trick on the models at the Jenny Packham fall 2014 show (above), using Laura Mercier Mineral Illuminating Power in Candelight.

How many of you did/will use this makeup move on your wedding day? Is there another little-but-super-powerful makeup trick you want to remind fellow brides not to forget?